Today I am cleaning up and preparing the area where I'm gong to put the Neatette portable kitchen cabinet/pantry that I bought yesterday in one of those retro/vintage stores in Kits. It's wood (oak, I think), has lots of drawers and cupboards, and is something like a Hoosier kitchen cabinet/pantry. It's pretty minimal, not ornate like those made in the 20s and 30s; it has clean lines, almost Amish Moderne, so I reckon it's late 50s - early 60s.
I'm very excited that I'll be able to gather all the dishes and whatnot from all over my living space and store it all in one compact place (41W x 70H x 16D). Yay, me! I am solving a problem with cool and funky furniture from bygone times.
Delivery is tomorrow at 11 am.
I have to point out my personal amazement at the piles of stuff that I've forgotten that I have piled up in that room: the stacks of magazines and steamer trunks full of yarn and the books. Stuff galore. Stuff I never even notice, much less use, anymore. The overly familiar verging into invisible stuff.
This is all catalyzed by getting more stuff from Alda. Everything appears to be shifting about to make room for the new.
In this process I am also shedding some stuff, small and large: the bar fridge, the old washer and dryer. I should also point out my personal amazement at how difficult it is to get people to come get stuff that you offer for free as long as they pick it up and take it away. I get messages from these people like, "I really really want it but I can't come pick it up until Wednesday," and I find myself writing stuff like, "If you really want it then it's yours but you have to be the first to come pick it up."
The fridge is gone. I have found that saying "it's yours if you're the first to come pick it up" motivates them well. I'll have to remember this the next time I want to get rid of something. No more saving stuff for people.
Nobody has expressed any interest in the washer and dryer except for one guy who wants only the dryer and hopes to pick it up using a dolly. Interesting.
I have to express more personal amazement at the amount of dirt in the world. If my personal space holds as much dirt as it does (and it does an admirable job), then how much dirt is held by the entire world?
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